Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski